Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the unions demanded company-financed training programs to upgrade employee skills and a voice in decisions about the introduction of new technology, which the workers fear could threaten thousands of jobs. AT&T, however, was eager to gain givebacks from the workers. The company asked, for example, that employees pay up to 25% of the cost of their medical insurance, a suggestion that the unions flatly rejected...
While a vigorous currency can be a source of national pride, the dollar's exceptional strength is causing alarm at home as well as abroad. Many experts fear that unless it can be throttled back, the dollar could threaten the recovery from the recession that ended last November. Says Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "The rise in the value of the dollar is putting the world economy on an extremely dangerous course. It has prevented Europe from having a healthy rebound and is placing tremendous pressure on developing countries...
...system of taxation. The University could not consider the merits of such claims without undertaking to judge difficult and controversial issues that could distract and divide its students and faculty. To resolve these questions. Harvard would have to take official positions on political questions in a manner that might threaten academic freedom. Students and alumni would object that their tuition payments, and donations were being used to support principles which they strongly opposed. For all these reasons. Harvard cannot agree to reimburse students in such cases, at least unless the moral grounds for their action are clear, compelling, and widely...
Everyone in Japan talks about the violence in the junior high schools. Students threaten their teachers, even pull knives on them. The Japanese discuss such incidents, curiously enough, without much anger, without the punitive tone one might expect. But they worry. Of course, the violence done in all the schools in Japan in a year probably cannot match what the students in New York City schools commit in a month. Still, the Japanese seem to sense in the rebelliousness of the junior high school students a glimpse of the future, and it frightens them. A country that has lived...
Even in the volatile computer business, this is a revolutionary program. A machine that could achieve any one of Fuchi's goals would achieve instant market success. A family of Japanese computers capable of all these tasks would threaten U.S. dominance in its most promising technology. Stanford's Feigenbaum observes, "The U.S. is squandering its lead at the rate...